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Article: Malibu aside, accelerating climate change will hit the poor hardest.(Wire Columnist)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2007
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WASHINGTON - "I've seen fire and I've seen rain," James Taylor sang sweetly, back when I was in college and both of us had more hair.
If Taylor were writing that song today, given that much of the country is experiencing severe drought, he might want to rethink the "rain" part. "Fire" would still resonate with listeners, though - especially out in Malibu, where some of the nation's most expensive real estate is in flames.
Atlanta is so parched that it's running out of water. The canyons of Southern California are ablaze. Here in Washington, temperatures have been climbing into the 80s - in late October. Can all this be blamed on that "inconvenient ...